Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Melissa Greenwell "You are leaving money on the table and forfeiting your strategic advantage if you don't have women well represented on your boards and seniors management teams," argues Greenwell. High-potential women often operate under the radar. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

Chief Operating Officer 50

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. Instead of building in-house teams to cover non-key operations and other excess workloads, they will opt to outsource since it’s the more cost-effective way to go. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity.

Outsourcing 66

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

Select your team. The first step is to set up a planning team composed of employees from across the company chosen for their in-depth knowledge of specific areas of the business. As the response needed to deal with a fire is very different from that needed to deal with a data breach, you may need to have a number of plans in place.

How To 52

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Just as empowerment, team building and other processes apply to formal organizational structures, then teamings of independents can likewise benefit from the concepts. Composers and lyricists to write songs.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. Future leaders will work with their managers in a team approach that combines the leader’s knowledge of unit operations with the manager’s understanding of larger needs. Partnering with managers.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. For some companies who have failed to build up a reservoir of societal goodwill over time, breaking their bond of trust with society might even mean losing their license to operate.

Company 50

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. That’s where the rubber boots came from.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 10

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

But our interviews with board members and CEOs in the banking industry—and decades of research on experts and teams—point to three factors that can compromise the effectiveness of expert-dominated boards, at least in some circumstances. The first factor is what psychologists call “cognitive entrenchment.”

Telecommunications 10

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

He appointed a special team to create an objective, transparent method for selecting the directors. After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Looking back, I can see that these years were crucial to our eventual success because we were building a customer base, establishing our name in the community, developing our team, and paying down debt.

Learning-by-Doing 255

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Take this example: One night Tom attended a celebration for a team in a telecommunications company that had drastically improved performance after implementing a new data quality measurement and control system.

Organization 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Depending on your corporate analytics culture and the experience of your analytical team, your analysts will probably approach this problem by asking one of the following questions: How do we create the best model to predict which customers are most likely to churn? Here''s a common business problem: You want to retain more of your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. In a recent meeting I had with senior executives at a multinational retail bank, none of the top management team could remember the last time they had sat down with a randomly selected retail customer. Competition Execution Operations'

Competitive Advantage 9

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These approaches show how companies are going beyond simply establishing an outpost in Silicon Valley to creating, instituting and sustaining different “operating models.”. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Innovation Operations Strategy' Idea Scouting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors. Here are a few thoughts about what you can do: Conduct a demographic risk-analysis of your team or organization. Accelerate training and transition planning.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. For example, one peer group might be high-growth micromarkets with limited competitive intensity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. From the sales side, teams need to be trained to take the insights generated by marketing and act on them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

They operate in different sectors including banking, construction/engineering, consumer/retail, government, professional services, scientific and technical equipment and TMT (telecommunications, media and technology). the UK and New Zealand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Yet, he found his path to the first team at Tottenham blocked by other more established players. Tottenham Hotspur feared that the lack of first team action would stunt Caroll’s development and growth. For example, in the Premier League, players on loan are not permitted to play against the team loaning them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

CenturyLink is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, serving both small and large businesses nationwide. According to Scott Berns, CenturyLink’s Director of Marketing Operations, the company has approximately 1,600 sales people, and the Angie pilot started with four of them.

Marketing 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Often, judgment must be exercised jointly by multiple parties who may not even recognize themselves as being on the same team or part of the same enterprise. Often, judgment must be exercised jointly by multiple parties who may not even recognize themselves as being on the same team or part of the same enterprise.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You can measure your ToMo or your team’s ToMo using a survey on our site. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. What is culture worth?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. For example, one telecommunications company we worked with can now predict with 75 times more accuracy whether its customers are about to bolt using machine learning.

Company 13

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. Failure Government Leading teams' Playing the blame game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To begin with quantitative outcomes, the Indian economy is operating at about $45 billion less cash than what it would have been if demonetization had not taken place. The result?

Banking 15

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Our bottom-up view was markedly less optimistic than the top-down story that the company’s management team had painted.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. But if you work in one of his companies, you won’t operate entrepreneurially. EA is going through tough times right now.

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